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LOT 1394
Medieval Bronze Archer's Thumb Ring
13TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (7.31 grams, 26.60 mm overall, 22.48 mm internal diameter (approximate size British X 1/2 , USA 11 3/4, Europe 26.92, Japan 25)).
With geometric design on a hatched background and discoid pad to rear. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1990s.
Ex Private collection, Suffolk, UK.
Property of a Kent lady collector.
Cf. Bikic, V., Beyond the Jewellery: Archer’s Rings in the Medieval Balkans (14th-15th centuries) in Bosselmann-Ruickbie, A. (ed.), New Research on Late Byzantine Goldsmiths’ Works (13th-15th Centuries), Mainz, 2019, figs.5, 6, 7.
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